Tone Quotes - Page 8

• In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Opportunity

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• The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it also serves to impart a tone of frivolousness and lack of seriousness to ambitious, intellectual, and competitive striving that women may pursue.

  Harriet Lerner

  Girl, Women, Anxiety

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• Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Animal, Expression, Talking

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• Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Morning, Self, Righteous

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• The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.

  Patience Strong

  Summer, Moving, Autumn

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Team, Writing, Editing

  Interview with Bridget Foley, www.wmagazine.com. March 1, 2007.

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• For my workout, I'm up at 4am. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. One day I'll tone - chest, back and shoulders - and the next day it's biceps and triceps. I also do 45 minutes of cardio every day. I do that before I even leave the house.

  Richard Simmons

  Workout, Prayer, Blessing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

  Edward Norton

  Jobs, People, Consistency

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.

  Tracy Morgan

  Thinking, Sometimes, Whole Life

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people.

  Martha Ostenso

  Humorous, People, Tragedy

  Martha Ostenso (1926). “The Dark Dawn”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

  Lydia M. Child

  Bird, Facts, Beast

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• In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

  Willis Gaylord Clark

  Voice, Mourning, Sorrow

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• I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

  Sarah Gadon

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

  "Sarah Gadon Is New Class' 'Most Likely To Wear A Corset'". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. September 30, 2011.

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• My type, which I didnt realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.

  Derek Hough

  Skin Tone, Skins, Realizing

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• I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there's any sort of overlap in content or tone or anything, just because you came out in the same year.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Years, Glee

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• And in their motions harmony divine
  So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
  Listens delighted.

  John Milton

  Music, Ears, Harmony

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 620

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• People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Men, People, Might

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• Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Trying, Diction, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

  Aime Martin

  Country, Law, Giving

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• I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes monotonous. When you change up your pace or your humour level, then the release is welcome... I believe that's my biggest job: tone control, and maintaining enough unity so that it all feels like one movie and all the scenes belong together, and yet diversity so that emotional and narrative interest is maintained.

  Patricia Rozema

  Jobs, Believe, Emotional

  "Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Patricia Rozema". "Mansfield Park" DVD, 2000.

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• A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each other, but their very face and tone of voice contract a certain analogy.

  Pope Agapetus I

  Two, Voice, Connections

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• Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.

  Peter Bayne

  Heart, Thinking, Long

  Peter Bayne (1858). “Essays in Biography and Criticism”, p.20

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• October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.

  Jean Hersey

  Fall, Blue, Purple

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• If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

  Edith Konecky

  Grandma, Grandparent, Ifs

  Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!

  Ashley Greene

  Over You, Ugh, Littles

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